Last year we held a festival to celebrate and recognise those who had saved seed during the year. This included a ceremony, where growers donated some of their saved seed to the London Freedom Seed Bank. The ceremony was accompanied by poetry, song, food, dance, and of course, the odd drink! We passed this donated…Continue readingLondon Freedom Seed Bank Festival – Saturday 11th October @ the Battersea Barge on the River Thames! 5pm ‘til late.
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We have awakened to the realisation that we are losing something of great importance: As food growers and farmers we have lost our knowledge of how to save seed and our crop diversity … and we no longer hold the seed sacred! In Oct 2012 Vandana Shiva and the International Permaculture Network made a call…Continue readingWhat is the Freedom Seed Bank?
Dear all – this blog is not sufficient anymore so we are growing a new website! 2013 has been AMAZING for the Freedom Seed Bank: We have grown fast and now need to regroup and create a fabulous website for 2014. We will move from this blog to a new site that will contain and…Continue readingWe are GROWING A WEBSITE this winter!
(1) WRITING TO THE 3 KEY MEPS There are 3 MEPs directly involved with the law who are really worth writing to: (be nice to them though, it wasn’t their idea) Sergio Silvestris: Rapporteur of the Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development (he is chairing the making of the new law) sergio.silvestris@europarl.europa.eu George LYON (United Kingdom)…Continue reading2 URGENT ACTIONS TO TAKE to protect our seeds before the 4th December!!!